Children of Honor

Jean Baptiste LaVache Born:1746 Port Lajoie Died: between 1805 and 1811 Arichat, Acadia?	Marie-Modeste LaVache Born: September 14, 1750 Port Lajoie Died: before 1757 Port Lajoie Acadia?	Firmin Gregoire La Vache Born: March 11, 1753 Port Lajoie Died: between 1822 and 1833 Arichat, Acadia Firmin Gregoire was married to a women named Jeanne
Charles-Joseph LaVache Born: December 24, 1757 Port Lajoie Died: January 20, 1760 Boulogne-sur-Mer, France	Pierre-Paul LaVache Born:September 19,1755 Port Lajoie Died:September 3,1756 Port Lajoie, Acadia

In 1772 Firmin Gregoire La Vache and his brother, Jean-Baptiste LaVache, were navigators at St. Malo. They intended to go to the Acadian settlement planned for Poitou, but took passage to Cape Breton with the Robins who were then building their salt-fish trade out of Arichat and Paspebiac, P.Q.

Tradition holds that they were "smuggled in" from France. This accurately reflects the attitude of the British authorities towards the twenty Acadians whom the Jerseymen brought to Arichat from St. Malo early in 1774. Gregoire signed the address of the seventy Acadian heads of families on Isle Madame to Lt. Govenor DesBarres, March 8, 1786.

On April 13, 1804, Gregoire received a crown lease of 106 acres at Arichat. He mortgaged this land December 13, 1822, to the merchants Philip and Francis Janvrin, excepting a strip on which Francois LaVache, ( persumably one of his sons) then resided. Gregoire and his wife both "over sixty" were listed at Arichat in 1811 census. He was listed as a fisherman at that time. Also in his household were another male and female over sixty, and a male and female under fourteen.

Children of Firmin Gregoire

Angelique LaVache Born: 1781 Arichat Died: September 1, 1857 Arichat, Acadia	Marguerite LaVache Born: 1797? Arichat Died: ?	Francois * LaVache Born: 1784 Arichat Died: November 12, 1857 Arichat , Acadia Francois was married to a Marguerite Le Blanc in 1804 and again to a Henriette Boudrot in 1824
Anne LaVache Born: 1779 Arichat Died: May 30, 1859 Arichat, Acadia	(son) LaVache Born: 1800 Arichat? Died: Young child Arichat, Acadia

* Francois LaVache was a mariner. In 1830 he partitionedfor a crown grant of land inherited from 'his late father', Gregoire, who had held the same by crown lease. In 1832 Francois sold thirty two acres of his land to the widow Angelique Forest (his sister) and another eighteen acres to Michel Theriault (his other sisters'husband)

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